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Theories of coercion exist across multiple disciplines to explicate the ability of one actor, the coercer, to diminish the free will of another, the coercee, in the absence of overt physical force. A valid claim of coercion places legal blame on the ...

“The ideas that we acquire from the world around us, or build when links form between previously unrelated cogwebs, forms thread in a rich tapestry woven by the enchanted loom, the human brain.” This poetic metaphor is from the physiolo...

On Sunday Feb. 17 2013, models, make-up artists, hair stylists, and photographers will be volunteering their time and talent to create artistic, royalty-free photography to encourage bloggers, journalists and other media outlets to write more stories...

By U. Tatunchak
On a cold and rainy Friday, legislators, community organizations, government officials, social service agencies, and concerned citizens convened on the front steps of the State House in Trenton, N.J., on January 11th , National Human...

Sexual violence and physical assault are the norm for women in all types of prostitution. One Canadian observer noted that ninety-nine percent of women in prostitution were victims of violence, with more frequent injuries “than workers in [those] o...

Human Trafficking is
COMPELLED SERVICE / EXPLOITATION
achieved through force or fraud or coercion.
Contrary to popular beliefs, physical force is not the only means of keeping a person in bondage. Chains can be psychological as well.
Force
Beating...

By Carolina De Los Rios
Tracey’s life changed forever on a walk to the corner store. She was 15 and trying to get a few minutes of peace away from her abusive home.
A guy she knew from around the neighborhood pulled up next to her and asked if she...

By psychopathyawareness
Some of the women who comment about their experiences with psychopaths, as well as many of those interviewed by Sandra L. Brown, M.A. in Women Who Love Psychopaths, state that psychopaths make good lovers. When you read th...

By Meredith Owen Policy Fellow
Imagine a young girl who has run away from an abusive home and meets a man who promises to take care of her. He gives her food, shelter, and love. As this relationship develops, this man alters his role from caretaker ...

Research suggests we can actually expand our compassion bandwidth without hurting ourselves. As the science of compassion develops, we can find empirically supported ways to cultivate and sustain compassion when it is needed the most.

GREATER GOOD | Kindness may have a profound, long-lasting effect on our happiness, according to the second study, published online in the Journal of Happiness Studies in April and conducted by researchers at Harvard Business School and the University...

“Prostitution demands a horrible powerlessness most people don’t see.” Becca Stevens
For prostitutes looking to get drug free and off the streets, the Magdalene program in Nashville, Tenn., provides a model for healing. Magdalene of...

by Melissa Farley, Ph.D.
Prostitution is an institution akin to slavery, one so intrinsically discriminatory and abusive that it cannot be fixed–only abolished. At the same time, its root causes must be eradicated as well: sex inequality, racis...

I don’t know where to start this story. I don’t know how to pick up the pieces of my life that are strewn all over the place. I want to scream at the top of my lungs but my voice and my basic fundamental natural inclinations as a woman have been ...

By psychopathyawareness
Psychopaths are Losers who view themselves as Leaders. As we’ve seen, unless there’s a specific advantage for him, a psychopath never admits to being wrong, to doing wrong, to having wronged anyone. Whatever h...

By psychopathyawareness
Paradoxically, psychopaths are egomaniacs without pride. Their shamelessness, lack of boundaries and hunger for control often leads them to relentlessly pursue individuals who don’t want them, and who repeatedly rej...

By psychopathyawareness
image by Christian Coigny
As everyone who has been involved with a psychopath knows, building a romantic relationship with such a pathological person is like building a house on a foundation of quicksand. Everything shif...

By psychopathyawareness
The Powers of Denial
Sometimes we become involved with disordered personalities because they have a compelling mask of sanity: they hide effectively their deviant natures and abnormal behavior. But we’ve also seen ...

By psychopathyawareness
Red Flags of Love Fraud
Donna Andersen, the author of Love Fraud the book and the website/support group Lovefraud.com, has recently published a new book, called Red Flags of Love Fraud: Ten Signs You’re Dating ...

By psychopathyawareness
Psychopathic seducers, as social predators, target countless victims. But they attach like parasites, for a long time, to comparatively few: only to their most promising hosts. I think that promising victims give off a sc...

By psychopathyawareness
* Note: This article is written by a friend who goes by the pseudonym “Peace”
During a relationship with a psychopath, we are likely to experience a range of emotions that we’ve never felt before: extreme je...

By psychopathyawareness
Lurking in the Shadows
As absolute narcissists, all psychopaths think they’re extremely important. To them, the universe revolves around them and their needs. Everyone around them is either a target they will try t...

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Why can’t FLDS children go to the public schools in Short Creek?
Since the earliest days of the FLDS church, the people have been instructed by their religious leaders to “leave apostates alone severely.” An apostate is a person who has chosen to leave the FLDS religion. In Short Creek, the public school reopened a couple years ago in the FLDS church’s former storehouse, which church members believe is sacred ground. Rather than send their children into that school, FLDS mothers home school instead. Some of them cannot afford the curriculum and other educational materials, so we would like to help them succeed. There is an opportunity to donate and to help in other ways as well. Reach out and let us know.

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